MTC MD held in ₹2cr job scam case

MTC MD held in ₹2cr job scam case

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Chennai:12.11.2020

Officials of the Central Crime Branch on Wednesday arrested K Ganesan, managing director, Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC), Chennai, in an alleged ₹2-crore job fraud case involving former transport minister V Senthil Balaji. The officer was remanded in judicial custody till November 25.

According to a complaint filed in 2015, the then transport minister K Senthil Balaji and a few others had cheated 81 people of nearly ₹2 crore between 2014 and 2015 by promising them government jobs. The CCB started investigation in November last year after the Madras high court ordered a probe.

Ganesan arrested on charges of cheating, criminal intimidation

K Senthil Balaji, who was AIADMK minister, had joined the DMK and is currently the party’s Aravakurichi MLA.

After police searched 17 places in January, Senthil Balaji got an anticipatory bail in February. In September, police raided the houses of K Ganesan in Anna Nagar West, and houses belonging to Senthil Balaji in Mandaveli and a few others in Karur and Madurai.

K Ganesan, who was working in Coimbatore, was transferred to Chennai as deputy manager (commercial) and was later given additional charge as deputy manager (personnel).

Later, he was promoted as general manager and worked in Villupuram before he came back to Chennai as MD in 2019.

On Wednesday, he was arrested on charges of IPC sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating) and 506  (i) (criminal intimidation).